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Kōrero: Dairying and dairy products

Feeding the calves

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Feeding the calves

Feeding calves used to be an arduous job that usually required training them to drink from a bucket of milk – with varying degrees of success. Today’s ‘calfetaria’ system allows calves to suck on imitation teats attached to a drum of milk.

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Hugh Stringleman rāua ko Frank Scrimgeour, Dairying and dairy products – Pattern of milk production, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/15719/feeding-the-calves (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Hugh Stringleman rāua ko Frank Scrimgeour, i tāngia i te 1 March 2009.